Bloomberg After a month of fighting that’s yielded limited territorial gains, the Russian military said it’s focusing efforts on taking full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region, potentially a sign it’s backing away from hopes of taking larger swathes of the country. “Our forces will focus on the main thing – the complete liberation of Donbas,” Sergei Rudskoi, first deputy chief ...

Bloomberg Kim Jong-un oversaw the successful launch of a new, larger intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in an explosive confirmation of his continued nuclear weapons development over the past four years despite international sanctions and failed talks with the US. The missile fired from a mobile launcher at Pyongyang Sunan International Airport was a Hwasong-17, according to dispatches and photographs published ...

Bloomberg India and China discussed Russia’s war in Ukraine and their own border standoff during an unannounced visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the first since tensions erupted between the neighbors two years ago. Ties between New Delhi and Beijing haven’t returned to normal yet and will continue to be disturbed as long as troops remain deployed along their ...

  Bloomberg The warring sides in Ethiopia agreed to a conditional truce in the northern Tigray region, where a civil war that’s raged since November 2020 has displaced millions of people and brought hundreds of thousands of others to the brink of starvation. The dissident Tigray People’s Liberation Front said it will implement a “cessation of hostilities effective immediately” once ...

  Bloomberg Thailand’s banking system remains resilient with high levels of capital buffer to withstand future risks and uncertainties, the nation’s central bank said, a day after S&P Global Ratings downgraded the top lenders citing increased systemic risks. The capital adequacy ratio of Thai banking system stands at 20% and lenders have increased provisioning against bad loans by $12.8 billion ...

  Bloomberg Hungary resumed raising the effective interest rate after the central bank said that the war in neighbouring Ukraine will lead to a sharply deteriorating inflation outlook. The 30 basis-point increase brought the one-week deposit rate to 6.15%, matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. But it disappointed currency traders after policy makers spoke of the need of ...

  Bloomberg Chinese tech stocks slumped on Friday amid continued concern about the sector’s earnings and the risk of local firms being kicked off American exchanges. The Hang Seng Tech Index slid 5% in afternoon trading, the most in over a week. Delivery giant Meituan plunged 8.2% as investors had worried about the company’s growth ahead of its fourth-quarter results. ...

Bloomberg European stocks were set for their first weekly drop in three, as investors consider concerns over the surging inflation and the war in Ukraine hurting growth in the region. The Stoxx 600 Index was down less than 0.1% in London, with banks and energy sectors among the biggest decliners. Real estate and retail stocks outperformed. Last week, the European ...

Bloomberg Russian equities erased earlier advance and fall during the second day of limited trading after a record long shutdown of the country’s stock market. The MOEX Russia Index was down 2.9% by 12:18 pm in Moscow after earlier rising as much as 3.3%. Gas giant Gazprom PJSC led losses after the US and the European Union reached a deal ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) announced on Thursday the start of commercial operations of Unit 2 at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. Unit 2 adds 1,400 megawatts of zero-carbon emission electricity to the national grid, bringing the total produced by Units 1 and 2 to 2,800 megawatts and further securing energy supply and advancing ...